Xiaowei Zang seeks to understand the relationships between family life and political behaviour of the Red Guard Generation before and during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). He analyzes social stratification in China before the Revolution, then investigates the differing life paths and personal experiences of children from several distinct social classes during the Revolution itself. This analysis is based on interviews with over fifty Chinese immigrants who were students during the Cultural Revolution. Zang includes an analysis of the differing strategies used by individuals from different groups to cope with the events of this stressful decade. Zang closes with the suggestion that class analysis can be productively applied to the study of contemporary Chinese politics.
- ISBN10 0813337313
- ISBN13 9780813337319
- Publish Date 9 December 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 December 2008
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
- Imprint Westview Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 152
- Language English